During its 12 hours of deliberations, jurors asked to see a report on a partial handprint that was left at the scene, most likely to compare it with Mr. Ko's, which was part of the evidence.
On the cliffside above her, stunning pictographs dating back to the 1200s — colorful stick figures and a silhouetted handprint that the Anasazi created by blowing paint over the backs of their hands — pop in the morning sun.
Reaching the Art Gallery by mid-morning, Ling helps interpret a panorama of 2,000 paintings and handprints that date back more than 3,500 years.
It involves compiling minutely detailed inventories and diagrams of the way that species are grouped on the cave walls; of their gender, frequency, and position; and of their relation to the signs and handprints that often appear close to them.
The collection includes sketches from Robben Island, where Mr. Mandela spent 18 years in jail, but it is the handprints that have become most valued: they sell for over $10,000 each on the private market, according to art dealers who trade in the work.
Sizable groups may have visited the chambers closest to the entrance — perhaps for communal rites — and we know from the ubiquitous handprints that were stamped or airbrushed (using the mouth to blow pigment) on the walls that people of both sexes and all ages, even babies, participated in whatever activities took place.
Yet the power of this one was in the children's handprints that seemed to claw at Hindley's face, obliterating her features with their tiny grasping palms.
Wearing the same sweatshirt covered in his family's painted handprints that he wore at the 2006 tournament, Mr. Einhorn was among the 3,400 competitors leaving Sin City at least $10,000 lighter (the buy-in for the Texas Hold 'Em Championship tournament).
Instead of just hiding the child's crumpled up drawings and precious finger-paint covered handprints that school sends home – what is now, like every day?
However, an American archaeological anthropologist now believes the measurements of ancient cave handprints suggest that the majority of those artists were women.
(The method proved so successful that other researchers used it to make another major discovery in October 2014: a 39,900-year-old handprint in Indonesia that is now considered the world's second-oldest painting).
